Improvement in hog catching and holding apparatus



I. E. WmcHELL. HOG CATCHIN'G AND HOLDING DEVIGE.

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UNITED STATES r Orrron.

IRA E. WINOHELL, OF PRAIRIE CITY, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO MARSHALL FEATHERS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOG CATCHING AND HOLDING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,307, dated July 17, 1877; application filed May 25, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA E. WINCHELL, of Prairie City, in the county of Jasper and State of Iowa, have invented a Hog Catching and Holding Apparatus, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a simple mechanical means for taking hogs successively from an inclosure and holding them securely without touching them, while rings are placed in their noses.

It consists in forming, arranging, and combining a sliding door having a nose-hole, and a fixed abutting door or wall having a mating nose-hole, with a passage-way having a swinging door, in such a manner that the movable doors can be readily operated to catch and hold a hog by simply working two hand-levers, all as hereinafter fully set forth.

My drawing is a perspective view, illustrating the construction and operation of my complete invention.

A A represent the sides of a trap and passage-way, formed similar to a fence, and connected at its rear end with astock-yard, field, stable, or inclosure, in any suitable way, so that hogs can be readily driven into the open end thereof. B represents a hinged and locked door, or a fixed end, designed to close the main portion of the front end of the trap. It has an elongated semicircular hole, 0, in its edge. B is a door, sliding in grooves at its a top and bottom ends.

The groove or bearings required are formed in or attached to the end frame of the trap in any suitable way.

0" is a hole in the edge of the sliding door, designed to match the hole in the fixed end or locked door B in such a manner that when the sliding door is moved to abut against the fixed door a nose-hole only will be open in the front end of the complete trap. dis a vertical shaft, pivoted inside of the door B. It has its bearing formed in or attached to the end frame of the trap, inside of the door B, in any suitable way. 9 is a lever-handle,

' rigidly attached to the top of the shaft 65. m

is a crank-arm, rigidly attached to the; lower portion of the shaft d. n is a rod, linked to the end of the arm m, and to the inside of the sliding door B. r

A corresponding connection, on n, is formed between the shaft and door, near the top ofthe door.

R is door hinged to a corner-post, inside of the fixed door B, in such manner that it can be readily swung to and fro to alternate- 1y open and close the passage-way and confine a hog in the front end of the complete trap. s is a vertical shaft, mounted in bearings attached to the side A. t is a lever-handle, fixed to the top end of the shafts. w is a crank-arm, fixed to the lower portion of the shaft 8. y is a rod, linked to the arm 10 and the door It.

In the practical operation of my invention it requires the attention of two persons, one to operate the hand-levers g and t to catch and hold an animal, and another to apply the Eing to the animals nose when caught and old.

By turning the lever t the-door R is readily opened by means of the shafts and its arm 10, and the connecting-rod g], to allow an animal to pass into the front and closed end of the trap, and then again closed by the same means, so that it will stand diagonally across the passage-wa in which position it can be retained by the operator until the hog is fastened.

The confined animal will put its nose through the opening 0 c, and the operator can, by means of'the lever g on the top end of the shaft d and the connections m n, readily move the sliding door and allow the animal to pass its head through the nose-hole, and then, by a reverse motion of the lever g, abut the sliding door against the neck of the animal and clamp it between the sliding door B and the fixed door B, and hold it there until the second person fixes a ring in the cartilage of the hogs nose.

Animals of various kinds maybe thus successively caught and held advantageously for various purposes, and without laying hands on them.

My apparatus may be made complete, with a fixed bottom, in a portable form, or it may be permanently fixed by setting posts in the R and its operating mechanism s t w 'y, ar-

ground, and in such a manner that a bottom ranged and combined to operate substantially will not be required. as and for the purposes shown and described.

I claim as my invention IRA E. WINGHELL. The trap A A, having the fixed door or end Witnesses:

section B 0, the sliding door 13 c", and its W. G. CLEMENTS,

operating mechanism 01 g m n, and the door B. O. WARD. 

